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Butts
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 Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:45 am Post subject: madwifi problems |
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I had wireless working bu did not have wireless extensions enabled in my kernel so I couldn't use WEP. I enabled the extensions and now my wireless doesn't work.
I followed the outline in Wireless the Gentoo Way, but now I have problems.
I have no /etc/conf.d/wireless file.
When the machine boots, it attempts to connect to my essid, but says it could not associate with it.
My net.ath0 is linked to net.eth0 and my /etc/conf.d/net is standard dhcp for both interfaces.
Please help. |
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Butts
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:35 am Post subject: |
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Part of my problem is that I can not emerge baselayout-1.11.0.
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bash-2.05b# cat /etc/portage/package.unmask
=media-plugins/rmxmms
=media-plugins/realvideo-codecs
=media-video/realplayer
=sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.0
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bash-2.05b# cat /etc/portage/package.keywords
=sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.0 ~x86
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Then I get:
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bash-2.05b# emerge -av sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.0
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
!!! Problem in sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.0 dependencies.
!!! "Specific key requires an operator (sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.0) (try adding an '=')" exceptions
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Need more help.... |
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iverson0881
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Location: CA
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| The latest package in portge for baselayout is sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.3 |
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Butts
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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So now I have the current baselayout now, but I still cannot associate with the access points.
During the startup script, I get:
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Connecting to "any" (WEP disabled).......[!!]
Trying to force preferred in case they are hidden
Connecting to "SMC" (WEP disabled)......[!!]
Connecting to "CAEN Wireless" (WEP disabled).........[!!]
Failed to associate
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So it appears as if my card is not scanning at startup, and even then it doesn't connect to the preferred AP's. I know for a fact that CAEN Wireless is a reliable, strong connection. What else should I try? |
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UberLord
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Butts wrote: |
So it appears as if my card is not scanning at startup, and even then it doesn't connect to the preferred AP's. I know for a fact that CAEN Wireless is a reliable, strong connection. What else should I try? |
Don't set the ESSID
That should get scanning working.
For the connection problem, your driver may not be resetting the AP MAC address properly - play around with the associate_test_ath0 variable which is documented in /etc/conf.d/wireless.example
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Butts
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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When it scans at startup, should it say which ap's it finds? Because I commented out, setting the ESSID, and now it says it is scanning, but never finds the ap. I alos notice that my wireless led is on when it gets to starting ath0, but then turns off right before scanning.
Hmmm.... |
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Butts
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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OK, now I have it scanning and associating properly, but I had to use the trick mentioned in the other thread.
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iwpriv_ath0=( "mode 2" )
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And now I get a connection, but when I run iwcofig, my connection rate is only 11Mbps as opposed to the 54Mbps that my card and ap are capable of.
Is there any way to correct this? I found that mode 3 gave me 36Mbps, but I would like the full 54.
Thanks for the help. And I love these scripts. Very clean and easy to use. |
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smerkal
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:22 am Post subject: |
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having trouble getting the iwpriv_ath0 variable to work. /etc/conf.d/wireless is:
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essid_ath0=( "HomeNet" )
key_HomeNet=( "s:xxxxxxxxxxxxx" )
iwpriv_ath0=( "mode 2" )
ifconfig_HomeNet=( "dhcp" )
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running /etc/init.d/net.ath0 results in:
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* Starting ath0
* Configuring wireless network for ath0
* Connecting to "HomeNet" (WEP enabled) ... [ !! ]
* Failed to configure wireless for ath0
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If I enter "iwpriv ath0 mode 2" at the command line and then run the script all is well. Any sugggestions?[/code] |
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Butts
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Did you add the preup function as well?
For some odd reason iwpriv must be run twice.
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preup() {
if [ $1 == "ath0" ] ; then
iwpriv $1 mode 2
fi
return 0
}
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smerkal
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Butts. Didn't know about that, but it solves the problem. Hotplug works now too  |
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